Minitrue: Real Estate, Finance, Harvard Politics

The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source.

(1) The media are kindly asked to delete the piece “The Secret of Li Ka-shing’s Disinvestment on the Mainland: No Sense of Security.”

(2) Please delete the report titled “Local Financial Offices Will Be Relieved of Financial Capital Duties; Many Games of Chess Still Being Played Among Levels of Oversight,” first published by the Economic Information Daily.

Xi Jinping spoke to students at the prestigious Peking University on May 4. A “grassroots commentary” on the Tianya bulletin board website, already deleted, stated that Xi Jinping warned students not to turn their school into a “second Harvard.” 姚文嚼字 asks, “If Peking University has the misfortune to became a Second Harvard, and has the further misfortune of producing several dozen Nobel prize-winners, and in doing so destroys its red landscape–how could our nation agree to that?”

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